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Streaming video

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 4:17 pm
by hawleyjr
I'm looking into running streaming video for a client. The most popular product I've found is Macromedia's Flash Communication Server. This is about $500 USD.

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashcom/

Does anyone know of a cheaper or better option?

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 4:26 pm
by ibizconsultants
Hello,

Believe me.... Macromedia Flash Comm is the best... you have a lot of ready components that are very easy to use for your development.

iBizConsultants

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 4:48 pm
by Burrito
we use playstream which offers streaming in many different formats.

it's relatively cheap and their support is awesome. If you're looking to buy a solution however, I can't make any recommendations. We use playstream for two reasons 1) as I said above...cheap 2) they have huge bandwidth so our users dont' have any issues streaming video from our internet connection (just a T1 right now).

does MM's server only do .flvs, or can you stream other content types?